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and is interrupted at apical fourth by a transverse streak of tufted 

 whitish scales; cilia gray. Hindwings dark gray with ciha a shade 

 lighter. Abdomen silvery white, shaded laterally with fuscous. 

 Legs white; tarsal joints with black anuulations. 



Alar expanse. — 7 mm. 



Habitat. — Paraiso, Isthmian Canal Zone. La Chorrera, Panama, 

 May, April. 



Type-specimen.— Q&i. No. 15824, U.S.N.M. 



Reminding in a general way of Recurvaria sticta Walsingham, but 

 is smaller and with more mottled wing ornamentation. 



RECURVARIA FLAVIDELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi ochreous; second joint with rather larger tuft than is 

 normal in the genus; terminal joint with two deep black annulations. 

 Antennte ochreous with black annulations. Face silvery white. 

 Head light ochi-eous. Thorax darker ocln-eous. Forewmgs light 

 ochreous, suffused on costal and apical half with darker ochreous; 

 on the middle of the cell is a small black dot and below it on the fold 

 is a tuft of raised scales; at the end of the cell are two, small, black 

 dots, one above the other, below which a tuft of raised scales, narrowly 

 edged with black; on the middle of costa is an inconspicuous, out- 

 wardly oblique, black streaklet; at apical fourth is a sbnilar, but 

 much more pronounced black streak, reaching nearly to termen and 

 edged posteriorly with light ochreous; around the apical edge is a 

 series of short black lines. Cilia dark ochreous with hghter tips. 

 Hind^vings light ochreous fuscous with light ochreous ciha. Abdo- 

 men Hght ochi-eous above, silvery below. Legs ochreous; tarsal 

 joints annulated with black. 



Alar expanse. — 7 mm. 



Hahitat. — Paraiso, Isthmian Canal Zone. April, May. 



Type-specimen.— Cat. No. 15825, U.S.N.M. 



This species is very close to R. apicitripunctella Clemens, and R. 

 variella Chambei-s, smaller than either and differing, aside from 

 details of ornamentation, in the more tufted palpi. 



Genus GELECHIA Hubner. 



Type — Gelechia rTiombella Hubner. 



GELECmA TRADUCELLA, new species. 



Labial palpi with second joint nearly smooth and terminal joint 

 fully as long as second; black, minutely sprinkled with white scales, 

 which on the terminal joint form an indistinct, longitudinal, anterior 

 line. Lower part of face black; upper part and head Hght ochreous. 

 AntennsB black with short, longitudinal, silvery white streaks. Thorax 

 black. Forewings black with a light yellow, obhque fascia from basal 

 fourth of costa to basal third of dorsum and with a spot of the same 



